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• Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount

  21-11-2020 23:42 via sltrib.com
  
  Milwaukee • Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Biden’s victory by about 20,600 votes. With no precedent for a recount reversing such a large margin, Trump’
  
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• Letter: Be safe this holiday season

  21-11-2020 23:30 via sltrib.com
  
  One Thanksgiving, I helped with the cooking by shoving potato peels and flour down the garbage disposal all at once. It exploded all over the kitchen, the people, the food. I was old enough to know better, and that minor disaster became part of our family’s holiday lore. Another Thanksgiving I spent in the hospital after surgery; I wanted nothing except my parents at my bedside (they were).One Christmas Day almost 20 years ago, my husband and I got the call that his aunt had died in one ho
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Schools are more important, less dangerous

  21-11-2020 23:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Getting an education is both more important and less dangerous than getting a cheeseburger, a beer or a turn on the treadmill.Time spent in a classroom is more essential, and less deadly, than a big wedding, a family reunion or a company Christmas party.And the real need of every child for a full education is infinitely greater than any adult’s imagined right to walk around without a mask.So why, in an increasing number of American cities, from Herriman to New York, are schools closed and
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 3,395 Saturday, as hospitalizations set another record

  21-11-2020 21:07 via sltrib.com
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.With 3,395 new coronavirus cases reported Saturday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses dropped slightly, but hospitalizations reached new records.The Utah Department of Health on Saturday reported a seven-day average of 3,229 new positiv
  
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• Reports: Gordon Hayward leaving Boston Celtics for Charlotte Hornets

  21-11-2020 20:36
  
  20181026 Boston Celtics forward Gordon Hayward (20) during an NBA basketball game between the Boston Celtics and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Sue Ogrocki Gordon Hayward AP | Sue Ogrocki, AP Gordon Hayward will reportedly end up with the Charlotte Hornets after all.
  ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported Saturday — and multiple others soon followed — that Hayward has agreed to a four-year, $120 million contract wit
  
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• AP source: Ex-Utah Jazzman Gordon Hayward signs with Hornets, Fred VanVleet staying with Raptors,

  21-11-2020 20:36 via sltrib.com
  
  Fred VanVleet bet on himself. It paid off.Gordon Hayward, meanwhile, is heading to a new home.VanVleet agreed Saturday to a four-year, $85 million contract to remain with the Toronto Raptors, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the contract remains unsigned. The fourth year of the contract is at VanVleet’s option.Hayward has been a player that the Charlotte Hornets have wanted for years. On Saturday, they finally lan
  
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• Letter: Utah ‘values’

  21-11-2020 20:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Every day as I read the information about the current pandemic and people protesting the wearing of masks, mention of “Utah values” crops up in these articles. Which poses the question: Why do “Utah values” only come into play when it is something agreeable? Mention masking or social distancing and those “Utah values” seem to disappear into thin air. Mask up, people, please.Lisa Anderson, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• ‘Real Housewives’ cast member Meredith Marks’ marital woes are playing out on the show

  21-11-2020 20:00 via sltrib.com
  
  “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” cast member Meredith Marks is not, she insists, comfortable sharing her personal life with others.“I am a very private person,” she told The Salt Lake Tribune. “I don’t disclose a lot to a lot of people — to friends, to family. I really keep a lot of things very tightly wound up for myself.”Which begs the question — why did she agree to become one of the “Real Housewives”?“I felt like doin
  
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• Yoeli Childs signing with Wizards, Jake Toolson inking Exhibit 10 contract with Jazz

  21-11-2020 19:51
  
  Brigham Young Cougars guard Jake Toolson (5) and forward Yoeli Childs (23) walk off the court after beating Santa Clara at Brigham Young University in Provo on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News Two former BYU stars have signed contracts with NBA teams.
  Forward Yoeli Childs has inked a deal with the Washington Wizards while guard Jake Toolson signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Utah Jazz.
  Childs, who participated in the NBA’s virtual combine, was hoping to be picked in
  
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• Utah lawmakers weigh tightening rules for officer hiring

  21-11-2020 18:47 via sltrib.com
  
  A legislative committee this week approved a bill designed to prevent police officers under disciplinary investigation from jumping to another agency without a paper trail.“This will shore up situations where, for lack of a better description, a bad player can’t be passed on from department to department without discipline,” said Scott Stephenson, director of Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training, on Nov. 17.The sponsor, Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Salt Lake City, said the bill wo
  
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• Ranchers, landowners worry copper mine’s plan will taint groundwater in San Juan County

  21-11-2020 17:04 via sltrib.com
  
  Lisbon Valley • When Mike Wilcox was a young man in the mid-1970s, he took a job at the Keystone-Wallace copper mine and mill near his home in Lisbon Valley, Utah.Some days, Wilcox went down in the open pit and dug a series of deep holes that were each loaded with 100 pounds of explosives. “We’d wire them all together and get way back on the road,” he recalled. “Then somebody would touch that puppy off. It was a wild deal … that whole mountain changed every ti
  
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• Saga of BYU and the ‘Black 14′ comes full circle when protesting player’s son becomes a Latter-day Saint

  21-11-2020 17:02 via sltrib.com
  
  University of Wyoming offensive lineman Mel Hamilton had no way of knowing 51 years ago — when he and 13 fellow African American teammates planned to sport black armbands in an upcoming game against BYU to protest a priesthood ban on Black Latter-day Saints — that his brave stance would directly benefit a child who wouldn’t be born until years later.You see, Hamilton, a lifelong Catholic, would go on to have a son, who would convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S
  
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• Steve Booth: On his way out, Herbert sees Utah become No. 1 at something

  21-11-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Dear Gov. Herbert (aka Available Jones),Having lived in Utah my entire life, I never really thought we would ever be No. 1 in anything.We Utahns have languished in the high 40s in this country for many years now. We have been among the lowest in education funding, health and human services for the needy and poor, housing for the needy and poor, living wages for everyone except the “upper crust” (you know the ones, Available Jones’ buddies), the right to organize and join free a
  
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• Beer to benefit a Salt Lake City bookstore; and fire destroys the home of bumbleberry pie

  21-11-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Can beer help save one of Utah’s favorite bookstores?A. Fisher Brewing Co. and Ken Sanders Rare Books will find out, as the two Salt Lake City originals are teaming up to produce a line of beer based on the characters from Edward Abbey’s iconic novel, “The Monkey Wrench Gang.”The series will include six styles of beer, each with a different name, the owners said in a joint news release.Each of the cans will feature R. Crumb drawings from Abbey’s novel — which
  
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• Letter: The hypocrisy of Utah Republicans

  21-11-2020 13:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I live in Salt Lake City. This week while driving on U.S. 89 in Sanpete County, I noticed political signs along the side of the road for Burgess Owens running for office in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. What? I checked my car’s trip computer. I was 115 miles from home, and yet I was still in my own congressional district? 115 miles! Utah’s Republican legislators mangled my district in order to cripple Salt Lake County voters’ ability to choose their congressional rep
  
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• Letter: Dysfunctional behavior

  21-11-2020 12:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Salt Lake Tribune articles continue to reference controversial text exchanges between Salt Lake School District board members as “vulgar,” and this needs to stop. Exasperated expletives communicated in private, in emotionally charged settings, are not vulgar; they are desperate. That perspective is not being represented in a time when how best to educate our children is uncertain and fraught with tension.That being said: As an educator, I want to know why our board members who hold s
  
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• Host, property owner face health violation charges over Lehi Halloween party

  21-11-2020 07:02 via sltrib.com
  
  Criminal charges have been filed against a person who hosted a Halloween party in Lehi, the city announced yesterday.Lehi City police shut down a party at a commercial building after getting a nuisance complaint on Oct. 31, according to a city news release. After an investigation, the department turned the case over to the Lehi City prosecutor. The prosecutor charged the event host with a health order violation, a nuisance violation and a disorderly conduct. The property owner was charged with a
  
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• Letter: Greed vs morality

  21-11-2020 06:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Desire to achieve things for oneself is good. I admire it in others, such as Bill Gates, for example. Bill Gates created Microsoft for his own greater glory and enrichment but he also enriched others in the bargain. He’s what I mean by greed is good. Without his greed, we’d all be poorer.Personal achievement is a high value, but it’s not the only value. Social values are important, too. Bill Gates’ success isn’t only his own. His parents and his teachers were a big
  
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• Report: Utah men’s basketball team pausing due to positive COVID-19 tests among the Utes

  21-11-2020 05:15 via sltrib.com
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team’s Nov. 27 season-opener is in serious doubt, as is everything else moving forward.According to a CBS Sports report on Friday night, the Utes are pausing for the foreseeable future due to multiple positive COVID-19 tests within the program. The athletic department would not confirm CBS Sports’ reporting, but multiple sources told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday that there have been multiple positive COVID-19 tests recently.Per an athl
  
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• Paul Krugman: Making the most of the coming Biden boom

  21-11-2020 05:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The next few months are going to be incredibly grim. The pandemic is exploding, but Donald Trump is tweeting while America burns. His officials, unwilling to admit that he lost the election, are refusing even to share coronavirus data with the Biden team.As a result, many preventable deaths will occur before a vaccine’s widespread distribution. And the economy will take a hit, too; travel is declining, an early indicator of a slowdown in job growth and possibly even a return to job losses
  
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• Sources: Derrick Favors, Jazz Agree to Deal

  21-11-2020 04:52 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  The Utah Jazz and Derrick Favors have agreed on a deal, League Sources tell The Athletic The Utah Jazz and Derrick Favors have agreed on a deal, League Sources tell The Athletic — Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) November 21, 2020 Source: Tony Jones on Twitter
  
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• Letter: End the GOP’s false narrative

  21-11-2020 04:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Steven Dewey, in his letter to the Tribune, spins the conservative narrative that blue states are dependent on red states for handouts from the federal government. This is a popular theme that has been pushed by the GOP and the current administration. The reality is exactly the opposite. An AP fact check notes that Mississippi gets $2.13 back from the federal government for each $1 it pays to the feds in taxes. Kentucky gets $1.90 back. Meanwhile, the rich states of New Jersey and New York get b
  
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• David Brooks: Nine nonobvious ways to have a deeper conversation

  21-11-2020 04:00 via sltrib.com
  
  After all we’ve been through this year, wouldn’t it be nice, even during a distanced holiday season, to be able to talk about this whole experience with others in a deep, satisfying way? To help, I’ve put together a list of nonobvious lessons for how to have better conversations, which I’ve learned from people wiser than myself:Approach with awe. C.S. Lewis once wrote that if you’d never met a human and suddenly encountered one, you’d be inclined to worship th
  
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• Allison Weis: The COVID-19 vaccines might feel rushed, but they aren’t

  21-11-2020 03:15 via sltrib.com
  
  A member of my family who is not in a science or medical field recently asked for my thoughts on the new vaccines in development to combat COVID-19. She, like many Americans, voiced a fear at the prospect of taking a vaccine that felt “rushed.”She’s not an anti-vaxxer, wants a safe vaccine in theory, but also wanted my take on potential risks associated with the incredible timeline that we’ve watched unfold as Pfizer, Moderna and soon to be several others are completing t
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Jazz retain lightning with Jordan Clarkson, gain thunder with return of Derrick Favors

  21-11-2020 02:57 via sltrib.com
  
  With word that the Jazz have agreed to terms with Jordan Clarkson and Derrick Favors on Friday evening, the team just got considerably better than it was before.The Jazz retained lightning and they gained thunder.Favors is not the wing defender Dennis Lindsey and Justin Zanik had talked about the Jazz needing, but when Favors was with Utah the previous season, the Jazz had one of the best defenses in the NBA (2nd rated), over one stretch the best defense.What were the Jazz last season without Fa
  
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• Orem holds off Timpview 26-13, wins 5A football title and its fourth straight state championship

  21-11-2020 02:53 via sltrib.com
  
  The Orem Tigers got their fabled four-peat with a 26-13 win over Timpview to win their fourth straight state title. The Tigers had to use a strong seduced half to win the 5A title afterthe game was tied 6-6 at halftime.Orem scored 20 unanswered points totake control.Orem won the 5A title last season and the 4A title the previous two seasons.This story will be updated.
  
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• Birthday time: Biden turns 78, will be oldest U.S. president

  21-11-2020 02:52 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice.As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: demonstrating to Americans that age is but a number and he’s up to the job.Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation&rsqu
  
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• Man faces health violation charge after hosting Lehi Halloween party

  21-11-2020 02:47 via sltrib.com
  
  Criminal charges have been filed against a man who hosted a large Halloween party in Lehi, FOX 13 reports.Scott Brown was charged Wednesday with disorderly conduct, creating a public nuisance and violating health regulations on Halloween, according to court documents. FOX 13 reports that the charges were filed because Brown hosted a large party inside a warehouse in Lehi at 401 S. 850 East.The Lehi Police Department declined to comment on the case on Friday. Prosecutor Craig Chambers did not res
  
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• Letter: Stop the school to prison pipeline

  21-11-2020 02:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Can you imagine getting suspended from school in the first grade? This is an issue in schools here in Utah. Students as early as in kindergarten and first grade are getting suspended from school. This is a major issue because studies show that high rates of suspensions lead kids to be pushed out of schools and into the prison system.Oftentimes, when students engage in physical alterations, they are suspended. This should not be happening, as young children are still learning how to cope with the
  
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• Holly Richardson: There are ways to find gratitude in 2020

  21-11-2020 02:14 via sltrib.com
  
  I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude this month, both personally and collectively. November is typically the month when attention is focused on gratitude — daily gratitude posts on social media, gratitude lists are made and gratitude journals are dusted off and opened.This year has been different. There are fewer posts of gratitude and more of anger. Fewer posts giving thanks and more giving the finger. I read a comment recently that said something like: “Mother Earth sent
  
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• BYU football’s offense is on fire, but so is the Cougar defense

  21-11-2020 01:57 via sltrib.com
  
  Provo • Much has been said about BYU’s offense, but more could be said about the defense.And they’ll have the perfect opportunity to showcase their talents on Saturday afternoon when an eighth-ranked, undefeated BYU team goes up against a winless North Alabama.But just because the first-time FCS opponent has yet to win, it doesn’t mean the Cougars are taking the game lightly.“I know they’re 0-3, but if you look at what they’ve done and you watch the film
  
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• Utah Jazz open free agency by retaining Jordan Clarkson, bringing back Derrick Favors

  21-11-2020 01:49 via sltrib.com
  
  On a day when NBA teams and players could start leaking the terms of their previously agreed to deals — er, begin negotiating potential terms — the Utah Jazz entered the fray by first retaining one of their own players, then bringing back a familiar face.Jordan Clarkson is sticking around and Derrick Favors is returning, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune.Clarkson and the Jazz agreed to a four-year, $52 million contract, as first reported by E
  
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• Reports: Derrick Favors will return to Utah Jazz

  21-11-2020 01:41
  
  20180204 Utah Jazz’s Derrick Favors dunks during the second half of the team’s NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in San Antonio. Utah won 120-111. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) Darren Abate Derrick Favors FR115 AP | Darren Abate, AP The Utah Jazz and Derrick Favors are reuniting.
  Favors spend just over eight seasons with the Jazz before he was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans in the offseason of 2019.
  The 29-year-old big man has been rumored for m
  
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• Derrick Favors will reportedly return to Utah Jazz

  21-11-2020 01:41
  
  Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favors dunks against the Phoenix Suns during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in Phoenix. | AP Photo/Matt York The Utah Jazz and Derrick Favors are reuniting.
  Favors spent just over eight seasons with the Jazz before he was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans in the offseason of 2019 and has reportedly been hoping to return to Utah at some point ever since he left.
  For months the the 29-year-old big man has been linked to the Jazz in re
  
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• Derrick Favors returns to Jazz

  21-11-2020 01:36 via hoopshype.com
  
  Shams Charania: Free agent Derrick Favors has agreed to a three-year, nearly $30 deal with the Utah Jazz, sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium.
  
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• What the signings of Jordan Clarkson, Derrick Favors will mean for the Utah Jazz moving forward

  21-11-2020 01:32
  
  Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson (00) moves the ball up court against the Denver Nuggets during the first half of an NBA basketball first round playoff game, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | AP While many teams will begin training camp looking much different than they did when the previous NBA season ended, the Utah Jazz will look very familiar when December comes.
  Jordan Clarkson is here to stay, and Derrick Favors is coming back.
  League sources confirmed that the Utah Jazz ha
  
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• Report: Jordan Clarkson agrees to 4-year, $52 million deal to stay with Utah Jazz

  21-11-2020 01:32
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) moves around Toronto Raptors guard Terence Davis (0) during an NBA game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. The Jazz lost 92-101. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News Jordan Clarkson is here to stay.
  The Utah Jazz made Clarkson their first priority when the NBA’s free agency window opened at 4 p.m. MST on Friday. A little under 90 minutes later, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Clarkson, an unrestricted free agent, would r
  
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• Jordan Clarkson agrees to 4-year, $52 million deal to stay with Utah Jazz

  21-11-2020 01:32
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) moves around Toronto Raptors guard Terence Davis (0) during an NBA game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. The Jazz lost 92-101. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News Jordan Clarkson is here to stay.
  The Utah Jazz made Clarkson their first priority when the NBA’s free agency window opened at 4 p.m. MST on Friday. A little under 90 minutes later, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Clarkson, an unrestricted free agent, would r
  
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• Utah inmates are dying from coronavirus, as advocates call for an investigation

  21-11-2020 01:28 via sltrib.com
  
  The moment Utah prison officials had feared since the beginning of the pandemic is here.Hundreds of inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus, a number that is growing every day. Six men have died in less than three weeks. Dozens have been hospitalized.Prison officials had been successful for months at keeping the coronavirus out of its two facilities. But as COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed in Utah, the virus crept in for the first time in October — and hasn’t left.The Utah De
  
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• Jordan Clarkson re-signs with Jazz

  21-11-2020 01:27 via hoopshype.com
  
  Adrian Wojnaorwski: Free agent Jordan Clarkson has agreed to a four-year, $52M deal with the Utah Jazz, his agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports tells ESPN.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Giuliani’s Gift Horse

  21-11-2020 01:21 via sltrib.com
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Political JunkieFight the PowerBrain DiseaseUseless ThingsBiden BouldersToo Little Too LateParty AnimalsPower GrabberFer Heck’s SakeSnipe HuntWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Jose Borjon: The issue of hate crimes in Utah is still pertinent

  21-11-2020 01:11 via sltrib.com
  
  It is terribly sad, but not unexpected, the latest report on hate crimes by the FBI. It registers the highest number of crimes in a decade, as well as the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the agency began collecting data.Of the 51 hate crime murders in 2019, 22 persons were killed in a senseless and vicious shooting that targeted Mexicans at a Walmart in the border city of El Paso, Texas.What is also worrisome in the report is that a large number of police agencies appeared not to
  
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• Spokesman: Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus

  21-11-2020 00:27 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • A spokesman says President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has been infected with the coronavirus.The spokesman says the younger Trump learned his diagnosis earlier this week, has no symptoms and has been quarantining.Trump Jr. is the latest member of the president’s family to become infected with the virus.The president, the first lady and their son Barron have recovered from the virus.
  
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• Man charged for fatal June hit-and-run

  21-11-2020 00:14 via sltrib.com
  
  A Salt Lake City man has been charged with six felonies including manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly crash for a June hit-and-run that killed a teenager.Police say Llobani Federico Figuero ran a red light while going 90 miles an hour, 60 miles an hour over the speed limit, when he crashed into a car at the intersection of Redwood Road and North Temple on June 21. The crash severely injured a 17-year-old in the other car who died eight days later.Figuero fled the scene but his driver&
  
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• Jordan Clarkson the Jazz's No. 1 priority in free agency

  21-11-2020 00:06 via hoopshype.com
  
  Tony Jones: The Jazz are making Jordan Clarkson their top priority in free agency, according to league sources. They want to re-sign their sixth man
  
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